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Sexual Dimorphism in Brain Structure
While there are differences that exist between men and women, few behaviors are strictly male or strictly female. One noteable difference between men and women is that women are more associative in thought than men, but can it be stated that this difference in behavior is because of biology or because of different styles of raising boys and girls? It turns out that female brain have a larger corpus callosum, which connects the two halves of the brain, and contributes to the fact that women are more associative in nature than men.
Therefore it can be seen that the sexual dimorphic brain seen in the songbirds has been maintained as it is exhibited in humans as well. Therefore it can be assumed that all species have some degree of sexual dimorphism in brain structure.